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By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Twelve years after a hacker stole personal information from 3.6 million people through…

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Former NFL linebacker Terrell Suggs has been arrested after allegedly threatening another man and showing a handgun during…

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — An Islamic center at New Jersey’s Rutgers University was vandalized on the Muslim holiday of Eid-al-Fitr. Authorities…

By CLAUDIA LAUER and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — At least two people have been shot at an Eid event in Philadelphia, a law…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — An off-duty police officer in South Carolina has been charged with murder after state…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press An effort to amend the Maine Constitution to enshrine the right to an abortion is coming up short. The measure fell…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa is directing nearly a million dollars in grant funding to expand summer meal…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — President Javier Milei of Argentina has kicked off a visit to the United States,…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers tried for a third straight day Wednesday to get a…

PARIS (AP) — French authorities say an explosion and fire hit a French factory that treats dangerous substances. One person was critically injured.…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Federal authorities have arrested a man they said placed a homemade explosive device outside the Alabama attorney…

By BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Toronto’s Jontay Porter could face expulsion from the league if the gambling-related…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A former high-ranking Democratic legislator in New Mexico has pleaded not guilty to numerous federal charges stemming from…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press A federal judge has ruled that Woodford Reserve undermined unionization efforts at its Kentucky distillery by…

By BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Donald Trump has stirred religious controversy again in his presidential comeback bid, questioning…

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — More than 190,000 women are currently being held in some kind of…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Some Federal Reserve policymakers argued at their most recent meeting in March that…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors say the May bribery trial of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez should be postponed…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press Nebraska lawmakers are on track to pass a bill that would circumvent voters who could repeal a new law that funds…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press Voters have sided with abortion rights supporters every time the issue has been directly on…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The 97th Academy Awards will be held March 2. The date announced by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences on…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Add investors to the list of people that opponents of smoking in casinos are enlisting…

By DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s Senate has created a commission to investigate soccer match-fixing. The move…

By LISA MASCARO, JILL COLVIN and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson will meet with Donald Trump for a…

By ERIC TUCKER and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is considering whether to take up a bill that would reauthorize a…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Amanda Knox is again defending herself in an Italian court in a slander case that has the…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Voters in a New Hampshire town have passed an ordinance addressing what local officials…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Reporters Without Borders says its representatives was denied entry into Hong Kong, calling it a…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Margot Robbie has her sights on another toy. The “Barbie” producer and star is making a…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press A retired U.S. Army colonel who was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism during the Korean War has died at age 97. A…

By BILL BARROW and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Donald Trump says an Arizona law that criminalizes nearly all abortions goes…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The top general for U.S. forces in Europe told Congress Wednesday that Ukraine will be outgunned 10…

By SAM METZ Associated Press AMIZMIZ, Morocco (AP) — Communities hit hard by last year’s deadly earthquake in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The family of a Nigerian business leader who died in a Southern California helicopter crash that killed five others filed a…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says he’s considering a request from Australia to drop the decade-long U.S. push to prosecute Wikileaks…

DETROIT (AP) — Ford is recalling nearly 43,000 small SUVs because gasoline can leak from the fuel injectors onto hot engine surfaces, increasing…

PLAINFIELD, Vt. (AP) — Vermont’s Goddard College is closing at the end of the semester after years of declining enrollment and financial…

By SAMYA KULLAB and ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Authorities say a Russian attack has hit a grocery store and a pharmacy in…

ATTICA, Kan. (AP) — Investigators in Kansas say a deputy fatally shot an Oklahoma woman who was wielding a knife and scissors and lunged at another…

By JACK DURA Associated Press A North Dakota woman has been sentenced to 19 years in prison in connection with the death of a baby who attended her…

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s influential former President Álvaro Uribe has denounced as “vengeance” a move by national prosecutors to…

BERLIN (AP) — A court in Germany has sentenced a 30-year-old man to 13 years in prison for attempted murder for injecting mercury into his…

By GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s government has postponed until April 2025 tourist visa exemptions for…

BERLIN (AP) — Prosecutors say two Iraqis accused of being members of the Islamic State group and keeping two young Yazidi girls as slaves as well…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For most of her life, Angela Crawford considered herself a fairly conservative Republican —…

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas hired John Calipari as men’s basketball coach on Wednesday, a day after the Hall of Fame coach stepped down…

By MICHAEL CANTU Edmunds If you’re in the market for a used car and want to score a nice discount, consider getting a plug-in hybrid vehicle that…

Schools and government offices were closed Wednesday in some Gulf Coast states, where severe storms were expected to bring the potential for…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has met with a leader of Brazil’s Yanomami people. The shaman, Davi…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian authorities have extended the deadline for a preliminary probe into the still…

By The Associated Press The Green Bay Packers will play the Philadelphia Eagles when the NFL holds its first regular-season game in Brazil on Sept.…

By DASHA LITVINOVA TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian authorities have put more Kremlin critics on a wanted list as its crackdown against dissent…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland says it will host a high-level international conference in June to help chart a path…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The Swiss government has announced steps to bolster its “too big to fail” rules aimed to avoid…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep tells The Associated Press she was nervous while flying to her first…

By SETH BORENSTEIN and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press OXFORD, England (AP) — The United Nations climate chief says humanity has only two years left…

PARIS (AP) — France’s government has presented a bill to allow adults with terminal cancer or other end-of-life illness to take lethal…

By LEANNE ITALIE AP Lifestyles Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It’s the stuff of movies: Two friends vow to marry each other if they’re not…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Rescuers on the eastern Greek island of Chios have recovered the bodies of three girls who died after a boat carrying…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s Democratic governor has vetoed a GOP-backed criminal justice bill that would…

NEW YORK (AP) — Marisha Pessl’s first adult novel in more than a decade is a psychological thriller with the kinds of intricate clues and…

Jessica Alba, who shot to fame in the James Cameron television series “Dark Angel,” as well as films such as “Sin City” and the “Fantastic…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Officials say a Lebanese man sanctioned by the U.S. for his alleged links with Palestinian group…

GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press COMITANCILLO, Guatemala (AP) — Every night for nearly two years, Glendy Aracely Ramírez has prayed by…

By ERICK KAGLAN Associated Press LOME, Togo (AP) — Togo’s government says a planned three-day protest over the arrest of opposition figures and…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia’s state-appointed rights commission is calling for an investigation into the…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will face Democratic voters this Saturday in a pair of nominating contests in…